The module/record ambiguity is dealt with in Frege by preferring modules and requiring a module prefix for the record if there is ambiguity. So if your record named Record was inside a module named Record you would need `Record.Record.a`. I think for the most part programmers will structure their programs to avoid this situation.

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* '''Use the module name space mechanism'''; after all that's what it's for. But putting each record definition in its own module is a bit heavyweight. So maybe we need local modules (just for name space control) and local import declarations. Details are unclear. (This was proposed in 2008 in [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-August/046494.html this discussion] on the Haskell cafe mailing list and in #2551. - Yitz)

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Verbosity is solved in Frege by using the TDNR concept. In `data Record = Record {a::String};r = Record "A"; r.a` The final `r.a` resolves to `Record.a r`.

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* '''Use the module name space mechanism'''; after all that's what it's for. But putting each record definition in its own module is a bit heavyweight. So maybe we need local modules (just for name space control) and local import declarations. Details are unclear. (This was proposed in 2008 in [http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-August/046494.html this discussion] on the Haskell cafe mailing list and in #2551. - Yitz).

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Rather than strictly re-use modules it would make more sense to have a name-spacing construct that is shared between both records and modules - hopefully this would make implementation easier.

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